– From a personal standpoint; the idea / ideas of this book have, quite specifically, a history of more than 55 years (approximately since 1969) — and have taken shape across distinctly varied periods of the author’s intellectual / reflective life.

– And one might say; the questions (and their partial answers), altogether, are the lived experience of their author’s time.

– And of course the time of all of us Iranians (each according to their own share and fortune; and in diverse directions).

– A world {rich — substantial — diverse / transformative / … / conflictual — emotional and … / bewildering};

– And so naturally / necessarily, from the standpoint of intellectual space; largely positive; and altogether full of opportunities for ideas (amid hardship and difficulties). And specifically (in certain genuine respects), we have been an important, far-reaching, human / natural and multi-directional laboratory for the new / contemporary world.

– And we know that experimentation in the domain of human questions is many, many times more costly / demanding… and more impossible; and yet many, many times more valuable than the experimental sciences.

– And in any case, within this rich / creative contemporary Iranian lived-space, collective treasure-opportunities have existed; for the natural and largely unintended creation of ideas / reflections / life-intellectual hypotheses.

– And so — is it not clear? The risk-value of unconventional hypotheses / distant from {the customs of contemporary human sciences}; such as the Namotun hypothesis itself; and the posing of questions such as Repository [Makhzan] / Makhzan-Person / Zh-understanding / … which form the principal focus of this book.

– And for instance, quite specifically, in questions like these — familiar, shared ones — all of us, knowingly / unknowingly and at different depths, have been involved: — {Where is this world? / … / What is the social-personal world? / Where is society? / … / How and from where do all these transformations — of myself, of my social world — come? …}

– … {What is tradition / world / custom and position and …? / What ought they to be? … I — who … where am I; and what is the path, the way through? / …}

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– The author’s foundational published works (in Persian language), in order of composition:

1- Learning the Pseudo-Language (Yadgiri Zaban-e Kazeb) — written 1993; published 2010

2- The Multiplication of Understandings (Zarb-e Fahmha) — written 2006; published 2010

3-The Language of Understandings (Zaban-e Fahmha) — 2007. (In effect an introduction to the two preceding books, though published before them.)

4- The Repository of Understandings (Makhzan-e Fahmha) — 2025. Likely the final foundational work of the Namotun hypothesis.

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